I woke up with a start about 2 am this morning and realized I must have been dreaming about several problems and discovered solutions, I suppose while still asleep! That is the weirdest thing that ever happened to me I think. The solution I'm most happy about is the one for relieving the unbelievable indigestion/heartburn I have been having for several weeks. I realized it was after seeing the cardiologist and having her tell me to stop taking all my vitamins and supplements.
Not knowing how they might be affecting my heart I stopped just about everything, including two things I take religiously every morning - a probiotic and two capsules of tumeric. The probiotic has many more useful features than just helping with digestion, including skin conditions, preventing allergies and colds, and much more. Tumeric is marvelous for treating pain. So after realizing in my sleep that the lack of them might be my problem, I decided to start taking these two supplements again and see if I notice an improvement in a short time. I got up very early this morning and ordered both supplements from Costco - they are organic and free of all additives, and they work! I already received a notice from Costco that they have shipped, so I hope to be back on the road to digestive health very soon. It has been the worst few weeks of my life because even baking soda/water and apple cider vinegar/water have become less effective and I still wake up throughout the night with heartburn.
There were also two solutions to other problems I've been wrestling with. I remember going to bed early and trying to relax my mind so I could fall asleep. Maybe the relaxation is the key - sort of like meditation. Whatever it was, it worked!
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During my time as a Manager and encountering a difficult problem, I would "sleep on it" during the night. Lo and behold, a solution would come at about 3 a.m. so I always kept a notebook by my bedside. Some of my best writings were written at 3 in the morning. Always good to keep a notebook close by. Seems like once the "answer" is written, one falls back asleep.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your experiences and recommending the notebook. Back in the late 1990's I was going through a very traumatic and difficult and wonderful change in my life. At the time i kept a Dream Journal, and had the notebook by my bed in which I would write just a couple of words before the dream faded. I did this every time I got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. By morning I had what looked like undecipherable words scribbled out, but I was able to start writing the narrative from those few words and the dream came back to me in all its fullness and color and nuance. I wrote everything up and kept it in a notebook which I still have somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI hope getting back on the probiotic and tumeric won't be to bad, as long as you don't start taking lots of other things along with it. Hope you get rid of the heartburn.
ReplyDeleteI'm not going back to taking as many different things as I was, but I probably need Vit. D3 and a few others. I was taking Omega 3 capsules, but the cardio told me not to take them. My daughter seemed to catch on that I had complained about my super low cholesterol level, and Jeannie thinks she was trying to indicate to me that I should quit the Omega 3 if I want to raise the cholesterol a bit. No doctors will ever go against the rule that cholesterol can never be too low, although I'm sure they know it can. I think there is some payment from drug companies to the medical establishment (not saying to the doctors themselves directly) but their has to be a reason why no medical person will go against the drugs like Lipitor, etc. Situations like that always involve money at some level!
DeleteI have taken "Golden Milk" at night to help me sleep. It is milk with turmeric powder, black pepper and honey. I love the taste of that but I noticed that after a few days of that I start feeling almost dizzy at times. Nothing like vertigo just a bit fuzzy in the brain. I had no idea why that happened but since it started after the golden milk I decided to do without that for awhile. The fuzziness went away. Because I really liked the milk I used it again and sure enough the fuzziness was back. Right now I am back to no milk for 2 days. I hope that I will be better tomorrow again. Of course I don't know if it really was the turmeric but it sure seems that way.
ReplyDeleteVera, that is so interesting. I get dizziness when I take most meds and OTC products, but usually never get them from "natural" products like tumeric. How much tumeric powder do you use? I take mine in capsule form and have never had a problem. I sometimes sprinkle tumeric on an egg while I'm frying it, but I hate it when my hand slips and I get too big a dose of that stuff!
DeleteI agree with you about the probiotic being so helpful. The one from Costco, how
ReplyDeletestrong is the ingredients? At the health food store where I get mine they
are fairly costly and are kept in the refrigerator. Maybe I'm paying
too much. I try to get my friends that have digestion and heartburn problems to
give a good probiotic a try.
I first took a probiotic that I later found had unnecessary ingredients & coloring in them. I switched to another that had no additives and it had to be kept refrigerated. I ordered this one online and don't think it said anything about storing it in the fridge (or maybe that you could store it in the fridge if you wanted to) but I made sure it is additive free. I just looked on my Costco order and the tumeric is a 60 days supply (120 caps) for $29.99; the probiotic is WEBBER NATURALS COMPLETE PROBIOTIC 1 PER DAY - 75 for $23.99. I think I got $5 off the regular price of one of them, probably the probiotic. The tumeric is described as a vegetarian capsule, and is 1000mg. They are expensive but when I think about the suffering I've endured since I haven't taken them, it's a small price to pay. And from my experience there are absolutely no side effects, which I can't say about any kind of med. (When I complained to the dr. about my severe heartburn she told me to get Xantac. Hello there, didn't I say I can't take OTC meds or Rx? They just don't listen, which is why I think people take things into their own hands, and maybe don't always get it right, but then neither do the doctors.
DeleteJust looking at my comments above, I realize my Gemini is working overtime. Sorry for the lengthy responses, but I just can't seem to stop at one or two sentences!
ReplyDeleteBack when I was still in the workforce I often times found myself solving problems in my sleep. I thought how terrible that I can not leave my work behind and even take it to bed with me. Now, though not often, I also resolve things in my sleep.
ReplyDeleteI tend to agree with you a lot of doctor's push medications on us in particular statins. I hope the probiotic and tumeric solve your heartburn issues.
It might seem like you were taking your work problems to sleep with you, but I don't think the mind disinguishes work from personal from other problems - it just tries to solve them. And it is wonderful if you can get solutions while sleeping and not "brainwashing" your brain to come up with the answers you'd like.
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